On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:46:17 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:34:48 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:20:23 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:31:17 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > >> > >> > On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> >> Okay, I will have to ask... who has told you that? "wireless-tools" > >> >> package is still available in Debian and he upstream project is just > >> >> on the way to replace it but they are still needed in some cases. > >> > >> > If you ask anything about iwconfig on the wireless kernel mailing > >> > list you will get told that iwconfig is deprecated, does not provide > >> > all the function and at times give the wrong answers and that iw > >> > should be used on all mac80211 based wireless drivers. They wrote > >> > it, so they should know. > >> > >> Then why not ask them for a recommended replacement? If that's "iw" > >> then ask for the documents on how to properly setup when using "ifup" > >> method ;-) > > > > AFAIK, ifupdown is a Debian specific package - kernel devs are hardly > > responsible for documenting it. > > Are you sure? :-) > > I'm only aware of two ways for setting up ethernet network interfaces > (today) in Linux systems: one if using the old method (ifup/ifconfig) and > other is using networkmanager. And both are not Debian-centric, I've also > used them in openSUSE, for instance. I think you may be confusing 'ifconfig / iwconfig' and ifupdown. The former are *nix standard tools; the latter is a Debian-specific package that contains the utilities ifup / ifdown, which work with the file /etc/network/interfaces to manipulate network interfaces. IIUC, this is a higher level interface which calls ifconfig / iwconfig / wpa_supplicant / dhclient and other lower level utilities to do the actual work. > Anyway, whatever method is proposed by iw devels should be docummented so > users and distributions can adapt it to their needs, don't you think? iw is documented quite nicely: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/iw Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111026111600.b89cfe21afd435ed78647...@gmail.com